"Well, you can't involve friendship with business. It has to be one or the other. It's either business or friendship, or hit the bricks!"--Life Lessons from "The Tao of Bobby the Brain Heenan" Uncensored 2000 preview

I actually schedule hundreds of hearings per day for claimants who were rejected unemployment checks once, so they can only be rejected again at these hearings. Then they call me up to bitch about the happenings of their hearings so that I can reschedule it and then they lose again and then appeal again and this time win, but then their former employers appeal and this goes on and on and on.

Currently, I'm working on scheduling mass appeal hearings for approximately 3,000 people who were rejected benefits from a major company that layed them off. This is hell because I get about 60 calls a day for information on it.

In my spare time, I dream of winning the lottery, which I don't play. Kind of defeats the purpose... But I enjoy the perks of being a state employee and the perks is great. Free medical insurance, 401K plan, 12 vacation days, 15 sick days, and 3 administrative leave days. Ain't too bad.

(edited by Ticamo on 4.3.04 2042)Peter Griffin: Oh, you people can kiss the fattest part of my ass.

Software consultant for development organisations. More specifically, the kind of consultant who "does stuff", as opposed to the more ubiquitous "come in, flap arms, babble incomprehensible jargon, collect large paycheque, bail before they notice that they got nada."

It looks like we have 3 bankers and all of us are in the general "compliance/LR/audit" arena. I guess that simply means that at least 3 of us really know the meaning of boring (nothing more exciting than reading banking regulations) and also know the feeling of frustration (rarely does anyone like anything that we do).

The only thing less exciting than reading banking regulations may be reading telecom requirements. And nobody likes anything that telecom engineers do either. ("Goddamn phone system never works.") I know your pain. :-)